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Originally Posted by RedsManRick
Absolutely, and that will show up in your differential. Getting 20 runs better at prevention at the cost of 20 runs of offense accomplishes nothing. But even if your offense sucks, you benefit more from improving your defense by an additional 20 runs than by improving your offense by 10. It's the change in the differential that matters, not which side you're affecting.
The point is that you can never just focus on or the other. For position players, they always both count.
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I see what you are saying but I guess my feeling is there is some point at which you must sacrifice one for the other and that works both ways depending on the type of team you have. Although perhaps a slight offensive lean moreso than a defensive one.
For example if we kept improving our defense at a rate of 2:1 until we had the best glovemen in baseball, balls can still and will hit the ground, balls will still leave the yard etc. At what point must you find that balance?